Never quite sure if it's true, but none the less I always liked the story that Ali Benarbia turned up at City just tagging along with a mate - who was the real focus of City's interest. Keegan however suddenly remembered Benarbia from a Newcastle loss to Monaco - and he was told to stick some boots on so they could have a look at him. The rest is history. Surely the best free transfer business we ever did!

Never quite sure if it's true, but none the less I always liked the story that Ali Benarbia turned up at City just tagging along with a mate - who was the real focus of City's interest. Keegan however suddenly remembered Benarbia from a Newcastle loss to Monaco - and he was told to stick some boots on so they could have a look at him. The rest is history. Surely the best free transfer business we ever did!

Not quite - Alioune Toure, who had been with Ali B at PSG, was on loan at City and Ali B had called in to see him after a trial at Sunderland(?) and KK did indeed remember him from a CL game with Monaco. Toure was the player who got a DVT later that season.